'The Color Purple' Musical Movie Adaptation In The Works From Steven Spielberg, Oprah
Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey are developing The Color Purple musical movie, based on the Tony-winning musical by Marsha Norman and Brenda Russell.
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Concept Art From 'Black Dynamite' Director's 'Aztec Warrior'
Scott Sanders, the man who with Michael Jai White crafted the often hilarious blaxploitation spoof/homage Black Dynamite, is turning to the world of Mexican wrestling with his next film, Aztec Warrior. The movie begins shooting today, with Luis Guzman as a luchador who faces off against his rival El Diablo, played by Eugenio Derbez. Terry…
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Weekend Weirdness Interview: Director Scott Sanders On Black Dynamite, Fried Chicken Conspiracies, And Porn Stars In Hollywood Films
It’s a crazy, mixed up world and we are thankful for movies, excluding The Tooth Fairy starring The Rock, that offer proof. /Film’s Weekend Weirdness examines such flicks, whether in the form of a new trailer for a provocative indie, a mini review, or an interview. It's rare when the marketing campaign for an indie…
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Blaxploitation Parody Black Dynamite Spawns Animated Series
A couple of hours ago I finally caught Black Dynamite, which became an internet sensation based on a very well cut trailer. (Not this one, sadly, but this is what Apparition is using to sell the film now.) Despite having been told that the film plays better as a trailer than a feature I had…
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Black Dynamite Movie Trailer
Apparition has released a new, and possibly final, movie trailer for the blaxploitation callback Black Dynamite on Yahoo. Watch the new trailer now after the jump, and leave your thoughts in the comments below. Black Dynamite is the love child of writer/star Michael Jai White and writer/director Scott Sanders. Here's the plot: This is the…
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Sundance Blog: Celebrity Sightings
Sundance is now in full swing and I havent been able to to blog about the experience as much as I would like to. We've got a tremendous response to the video blogs, probably more so than anything else we've ever put up on the site. It probably speaks to why America is so obsessed…
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Black Dynamite Red Band Movie Trailer 2 (What The What!?!)
"But Black Dynamite, I sell drugs to the community." With this new red band trailer, Black Dynamite officially blazes its way onto the Most Anticipated List. Way back in July, the buzzing stealth passion project from writer/director, Scott Sanders, and writer/star, Michael Jai White, miraculously won me over by making exhausted, semi-ironic blaxploitation homage seem…
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Black Dynamite Red Band Trailer With Michael Jai White (Whoa)
From Spike Jonze's "Sabotage" to PTA's Angels Live in My Town to the full-on grindhouse wave, the ship for ironic urban 'sploitation needs to sail already. We'll make an exception for the new Dolemite trailer because it has laser beams, but that's it. Let it rest. Okay, um, we might need to make another exception.…
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